Captain Catholic versus President Presbyterian

By Jack Waterford
Updated April 23 2018 - 11:06pm, first published November 28 2014 - 8:03pm

Tony Abbott spent some time during a bad week discussing ridding his ship of barnacles. As usual, he's using the wrong metaphor. He's in an Endeavour imbroglio. He's struck a reef and is taking on water. He needs to pitch some cannon overboard to lighten the ship's load, refloat, then put into some quiet portsuch as Cooktown for extensive repairs, starting with a new mast.

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